Pictorial History

Figure B1. A military parade on the Esplanade, Calcutta (modern-day Mumbai), by Thomas Allom, c.1855.

Figure B2. A "memsahib (white foreign woman of high social status living in India) in a basic sedan chair in 1895

Figure B3."Christmas in India"; chromoxylograph from a drawing by E.K. Johnson; 1881. An idealized picture of British home life: attentive servants and happy children (who would be packed off to England for schooling before long).

Figure B4. Holding court ... the lieutenant-general of the Punjab takes tea with maharajas and Rajas in 1875. Photograph: Popperfoto

Figure B5. Victoria Station (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus), Terminus for the rail line leading to the port in Bombay (modern-day Mumbai)

Figure B6. A civil service office in Madras during the British Raj.

Figure B7. Indian Civil Servants, by Bourne & Shepherd, albumen panel card, circa 1890. Key administrators, important civil servants, and military representatives of the Raj. 

Figure B8. No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery with RML7 pounder "Steel Gun" Mountain Gun in Review Order in 1895 (left) and the 51st Sikhs in 1905 (right).

Figure B9. British Men and Women during the Raj, before 1947.

Figure B10. A photo of University of Mumbai’s Fort Campus taken in the 1870s. Rajabai Clock Tower, seen here shrouded in scaffolding, was completed in 1878.

Figure B11. 1899 Pears Soap Advertisement

Figure B12. The Ajantha Caves, ancient South Asian frescoes preserved by Major Robert Gill, a British officer of the Raj

Figure B13. The First Indian National Congress, 1885: 72 social reformers, journalists and lawyers congregated for the first session of Indian National Congress at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay. The majority of the founding members of Congress has been educated or lived in Britain, including Allan Octavian Hume (below right), Badruddin Tyabji, W. C. Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjea, Pherozeshah Mehta, and the brothers Manomohun and Lalmohan Ghose had all studied in London, and had all fallen under the influence of Dadabhai Naoroji.